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Topic: Your holiday hill to die on. (Read 362969 times)

DH & I are not much into Valentine's Day, we mostly do stuff for the kids. DH will feel as if he has to buy me flowers sometimes though, all the commercialism and watching the ladies in the office receive theirs tends to do that to him. My hill to die on for VD has been if he feels he really must get me flowers or chocolate, please get it Feb 15th when the prices are slashed in half

My husband told me that he was very sad that he had nothing planned this year because V-day fell on the weekend. We usually celebrate the feast of St. Half Price after the holiday. I have serious cheapness problems that have kind of soured gifts that I have gotten previously. In the back of my mind I'm always quietly freaking out about the ridiculous markup on whatever I was given.

I saw a ridiculously easy "recipe" for strawberry shortcake for the holiday - take two Tinkies (cream filled yellow sponge cake "fingers"). Cut them across the middle at an angle - arrange to make two "hearts" (okay, so the proportions are kind of skinny for the hearts - so what - add more strawberries if you must). Put strawberries (cherries) on top of "hearts" and pour strawberry (cherry?) glaze over them. Hand one to the love of your life with a fork. Eat one yourself.

My great-uncle and I have a very...instreasting relationship. He's in his late 70s, and he grew up in a very different world then I did. When I was younger he was prone to bigoted comments that always upset me, finally one day I called him on it. He told me "Glitter, understand, what I say, is what I've always said. Now, that doesn't make it right, you're my great-niece and I love you. At your core, I don't care that you're a gay...lesbian? I don't care if you love a man, a woman, or a goat. I care that you are happy. So I am I gonna work very hard to get over my past, because I love you. Can you love me and be patient and know I mean no harm by what I say? And remind me to clean it up?" I'm proud to say that last year, that man surprised me and Partner by showing up for gay pride! He even joined in the parade and marched with PFLAG for a bit! Whenever someone tells me people can't change their bigoted ways I just think "Oh, I have proof that says otherwise, just give em time and love and a little kick in the pants". I find him to be one of the most facasinating people (great-aunt's pretty fantastic too) and I'm sad that it's become obvious we'll be loosing him soon. But I'm elated that I've gotten to know him better, that I've been able to change his view on the world a bit, and that my wonderful loving Partner, the woman I'll make my wife, saw what I needed without me even knowing I needed it and took care of it.

Ok, sorry to get all emotional up in here. Looks like it will be a special v-day for us this year.

One solo Valentine's Day, I stopped at my local grocery store for some dinner on my way home. As I got ready to drive away, I noticed the inordinate number of single male shoppers rushing into the store and leaving with flowers and nothing else. I sat there for a few minutes longer to watch and just cracked up as I saw one guy after another do the same thing. So, if you want to amuse yourself, people-watching at the grocery store in the afternoon/evening of Valentine's Day can be a crack-up.

Holidays used to be a huge deal to me, especially the ones that had usually been couples holidays to me (New Year's Eve and Valentine's Day). I don't care so much anymore, but DH is very big into holidays and gift-giving at holidays so, typically, I celebrate in this manner for him. Fortunately, DH has zero interest in doing something like eat out on Valentine's Day (he agrees that the restaurants are over-priced and crowded so we'd rather stay in).

Having worked in a floral shop (within a grocery store) during Valentine's I can sooo agree with you! It's a steady stream of guys buying chocolate and flowers from 5pm on. The later it gets the worse it is and heaven help you if you run out of flowers. Prepare to get yelled at for ruining their night because they couldn't be bothered to get a gift until 8pm the day of.

I do feel sorry for florists though, because they work so hard and get yelled at constantly, usually over prices. Of course I can't speak for everyone, but I know that in the case of our shop (and the hundreds of others within that grocery chain) the florists did not mark the prices up - that came from the growers. The florists had to raise prices to maintain the same profit they make all year and not take a loss on the hundreds of cases of product they brought in that week.

I regularly walk past a Godiva store and VDay is hilarious! The line stretches out the door and nearly into the street!

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If wisdom’s ways you wisely seek,Five things observe with care,To whom you speak,Of whom you speak,And how, and when, and where.Caroline Lake Ingalls

Even funnier than the long lines are the 'deer in the headlights' looks of the men waiting.

What is even more fun is being in a lingerie shop on Valentine's Day. Those are some truly epic 'deer in the headlights' looks!

I was in one, buying some underwear, and being perpetually single, didn't really register it was Valentine's Day. Until the store was suddenly swarmed with guys. I even ended up helping out a couple of them with their selections. It was actually a lot of fun.

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After cleaning out my Dad's house, I have this advice: If you haven't used it in a year, throw it out!!!!.

What I'm sad about this valentine day is that I'm missing out on a mystery shopper mission in a chain of chocolate store, because it's only for men (pretending to buy for their girlfriends) .I'd fill out a 5 page survey for 20€ of chocolate..

What I'm sad about this valentine day is that I'm missing out on a mystery shopper mission in a chain of chocolate store, because it's only for men (pretending to buy for their girlfriends) .I'd fill out a 5 page survey for 20€ of chocolate..

Do women not buy chocolates for men? I've seen men eat chocolates. Do they only buy their own? Is it weird to buy chocolates for a dude? I sent two of my guy friends chocolates because one just went through a terrible break up and the other is home sick so I thought "They will enjoy this", hopefully I didn't revoke their dude cards.

Or do women not buy for other women? Partner has bought me chocolate and vice versa. So has my mom, my best friends, basically anyone who can't figure out what to get me. Can't go wrong with chocolate.